Patrice Vermette Biography
Patrice Vermette (born 1970) is a Canadian production designer/art director. He is most noted for his work on the films C.R.A.Z.Y., for which he won both the Genie Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 26th Genie Awards and the Jutra Award for Best Art Direction at the 8th Jutra Awards, and Dune, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the 94th Academy Awards.
He was also a Jutra winner for Café de Flore at the 14th Jutra Awards and for 1987 at the 17th Jutra Awards, and was nominated at the 13th Jutra Awards for City of Shadows (La Cité) and at the 17th Jutra Awards for Enemy. He was a Genie and Canadian Screen Award nominee at the 30th Genie Awards for 1981, at the 32nd Genie Awards for Café de Flore and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for Enemy, and an Academy Award nominee at the 82nd Academy Awards for The Young Victoria and at the 89th Academy Awards for Arrival.
His other credits include the short film Magical Words (Les Mots magiques).
Early life and education
Patrice Vermette was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied communications at Concordia University, specializing in sound. In 1977, at the age of seven, he watched the first film in the Star Wars series, a moment he said sparked his desire to dedicate his life to helping tell stories like the one he had seen. Vermette has also stated that as a music enthusiast, his "dream" was to produce albums.
After graduating university, Vermette was involved in the visual design of music videos. He also worked in advertising.
Filmography
References
External links
- Patrice Vermette at IMDb
- Ernest Archer, Harry Lange and Anthony Masters (1968)
- Donald M. Ashton (1969)
- Mario Garbuglia (1970)
- Ferdinando Scarfiotti (1971)
- Rolf Zehetbauer (1972)
- Natasha Kroll (1973)
- John Box (1974)
- John Box (1975)
- Geoffrey Kirkland (1976)
- Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini (1977)
- Joe Alves (1978)
- Michael Seymour (1979)
- Stuart Craig (1980)
- Norman Reynolds (1981)
- Lawrence G. Paull (1982)
- Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli (1983)
- Roy Walker (1984)
- Norman Garwood (1985)
- Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta (1986)
- Santo Loquasto (1987)
- Dean Tavoularis (1988)
- Dante Ferretti (1989)
- Richard Sylbert (1990)
- Bo Welch (1991)
- Catherine Martin (1992)
- Andrew McAlpine (1993)
- Dante Ferretti (1994)
- Michael Corenblith (1995)
- Tony Burrough (1996)
- Catherine Martin (1997)
- Dennis G*ner (1998)
- Rick Heinrichs (1999)
- Arthur Max (2000)
- Aline Bonetto (2001)
- Dennis G*ner (2002)
- William Sandell (2003)
- Dante Ferretti (2004)
- Stuart Craig (2005)
- Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland and Jennifer Williams (2006)
- Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (2007)
- Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (2008)
- Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair (2009)
- Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (2010)
- Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (2011)
- Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson (2012)
- Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn (2013)
- Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock (2014)
- Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (2015)
- Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock (2016)
- Paul D. Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau (2017)
- Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (2018)
- Dennis G*ner and Lee Sandales (2019)
- Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale (2020)
- Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos (2021)
- Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino (2022)
- Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek (2023)
